Mac 2004 to PC 2002 corrupts file

M

mdeniken

I have a user that I support using Office 2004 on a Power Mac 1.4GHz
G4 sharing excel files with another user on Excel 2002 using a WinXP
Pro PC.

The Mac user accesses a shared folder on the PC... she can open and
edit the excel files, but if she saves them the PC user can't open
them... is this a simple version problem?

What version of excel for Windows is compatible with 2004 for Mac
without either of them having to choose a different format?

Thanks!
 
J

JE McGimpsey

I have a user that I support using Office 2004 on a Power Mac 1.4GHz
G4 sharing excel files with another user on Excel 2002 using a WinXP
Pro PC.

The Mac user accesses a shared folder on the PC... she can open and
edit the excel files, but if she saves them the PC user can't open
them... is this a simple version problem?

What version of excel for Windows is compatible with 2004 for Mac
without either of them having to choose a different format?
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Make sure that the Windows user is trying to open the correct file. When
the Mac saves a file, it saves both the data file and a resources file
that only is useful to Mac OS (not necessary, but useful).

You won't see the file in the Finder, but it will show up to the PC, the
filename prefixed with ".", so it shows up first in the PC directory
listing.

All these versions use exactly the same file format:

Mac XL: 98, v.X, 2004
Win XL: 97, 2000, 2002, 2003

WinXL 2007 will read and write previous versions, but will by default
write an XML-based file format.
 
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